Posted by AzBlueMeanie:
Character matters Sen. McCain. Do you still believe "The language that we should be using today is the language that we are using." McCain: Palin's "reload" and her cross hairs are "the language that we should be using".
When you meet with Sister Sarah today, it is your obligation to tell her to stop fanning the flames with her inflammatory rhetoric that the mentally unstable in our society act upon. With leadership comes great responsibility.
Congressman Harry Mitchell and his family have received death threats from the mentally unstable. Mitchell, family targets of threats, harassment:
"Congressman Mitchell has received physical threats, including threats on his life, both before and after a vote on health-care reform," Adam Bozzi, his spokesman, said in a written statement released Thursday. "Recently, the congressman received a call from an individual who said she was so filled with rage that she warned the congressman to 'watch his back' and called for a bomber to blow up his Scottsdale office."
Mitchell and his office in Scottsdale also have received numerous hostile phone calls as well as notes attached to animal feces throughout the past year, Bozzi's statement said. His wife "has been harassed at their Tempe home" while his son, Tempe City Councilman Mark Mitchell, also received "menacing calls," Bozzi said.
On Thursday, House Republican Leader John Boehner, R-Ohio, denounced the disturbing trend, saying, "Threats and violence should not be part of a political debate." John McCain, however, laughed it off and was dismissive because he was asked specifically about Sarah Palin's inflammatory comments. The man's character and judgment are to be questioned.
Harry Mitchell was interviewed last night on Countdown with Keith Olbermann.
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